the military takes charge of egypt and. the president is a triumph of democracy and the. american agenda democracy would. united states is becoming the laughing stock of the world. the united states faces potentially the next american president. plans for the country. party conference in washington this hour. as ukraine prepares to co-host the next year zero championships with a traditional instrument that might just see the world.

studios here in central moscow this is the twenty four hours a day ten pm and nine pm in caro where the egyptian military authorities now controlling the country have promised they will comply fully with egypt's international obligations during the transitional period the army took charge of the country after the embattled president hosni mubarak finally stepped down on friday and in a public standoff last in more than two weeks on saturday once again gathered here square which became the center point for the op people in the country to mark the historic event rock a bomb along with other world leaders welcomed mubarak's resignation saying that the voice of the people have been heard that since the u.s. backed the dictator during his thirty. there are those who question the sincerity

of the sentiments te's gonna check on reports washington is not likely to take a back seat twenty comes to egypt's new politics. in the west mubarak's departure was hailed as a triumph of democracy for gyptian said made it clear that nothing less than genuine democracy will carry the day. the u.s. congratulates egyptians for getting rid of a repressive leader it's a big change after washington sponsoring hosni mubarak for thirty years and turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations in the country what have i been doing for the previous thirty years while mubarak was actually torturing people. putting down opposition by force barak was a bad guy but he was our bad guy and as long as we had some element of control and that was good for us america's close ally is out of power but some analysts say the u.s. is still pulling the strings. long term alliance with israel

a deep partnership with egypt we as a country have provided more than one hundred billion dollars in aid to both of these countries there's a real investment here the force now in charge in egypt is the country's military largely financed by the united states the army will be in power until egyptians choose their next president egypt is the second largest recipient of american aid in the world after his neighbor as well the u.s. is pumping billions of dollars into the egyptian military which gives washington huge control over the running of the country and its future although the official u.s. position is that it's up to the egyptian people to choose their next leader some analysts say it's very likely the country's next president will be subject to american approval what took place in egypt was a military coup in a military coup inside the aren't mubarak and suleiman of course they're also military men that they will be no posed by the chief of the army and the minister

of defense they have a very close relationship with the pentagon don't always very very close to robert gates they talked on the phone at least five times this past week so always really washington will be supervising any seing that happens tahrir square in cairo now celebrates the end of rule by. an autocratic leader who restricted political freedoms and damaged economic progress so too did people on the streets of kurdistan and ukraine in recent years after so-called democratic revolutions with western approval but the leaders who came to power were later rejected by their own people the party of so many of these great people power of being where the. people that. have been. just a change of racism. some say the lesson that the west could learn from recent revolutions is to abstain from supporting a leader just based on how convenient they are for the west rather than how much

they can do for their people going to check on our t. washington d.c. . the renowned author and middle east expert tariq ali but is the u.s. was playing a risky game during the days of the egyptian unrest. the attempts made by. mubarak's deputy to cry and crush the demonstrators through violence free. ben the choice is very clear either they call in the army to carry out a blood department buried square in front of the world and that was too risky an option for the gyptian army because it might have split the army the generals might have carried out the orders if the pentagon had approved them but young officers whose children whose families whose brothers and sisters involved in this uprising might have desisted so it was a very serious risk for washington and in the end they decided it would be safe to

dump mubarak and mubarak then refused to carry out orders from the pentagon but only for twenty four hours he resisted for one day in the next day he was gone because the army told him he had to go and the me. freedom marshall power week the defense minister as we've already heard is a close ally of the pentagon then takes orders direct the big question washington has is nothing should happen to destabilize their. israel that is all they're concerned about and they're also concerned about the effects of this are people now on jordan on yemen and who knows even in saudi arabia and bahrain so regardless of what washington wants it to try to control the situation. well in a few minutes from now more analysis of the ripples spreading elf from the egyptian

army. expert examines how the president of afghanistan is trying to shield himself from the repetition of those events in cairo and also still to come. we've moved a lot of countries that are surviving off of the interest we're paying so it's good for us to be in doubt you think so i'm dead not dead in the u.s. asleep before bankruptcy comes knocking president tries to find out on a new york street. story still to come but first ahead of the euro two thousand and twelve championships in poland and ukraine the hosts of unveil the cheerful new object it may be small but they hope their traditional instrument will pack just as loud a punch as it african cousin did last year. the reports now from ukraine. remember the whole mark sound of last summer's football world cup the distinctive drawing of the traditional south african horn there was ill i.

mean it's equivalent for the euro two thousand and twelve championship to be held in ukraine and poland this whistle is called this is only named and shaped after a cuckoo and just like that it dates back thousands of years but with the reporter on the trip only a culture where there's a leak came from united money countries ukraine poland mulled over romania and the balkans we want to use it at the twenty twelve championship to let everyone know of our roots we're not seeing this instrument as purely ukrainian i would rather see it's purely slavic. those behind the idea to use this is relieved at euro two thousand and twelve say they will try to avoid the will was ill effect which brought complaints from some that the powerful pitch of the african horn was irritating and drowned out the atmosphere and like a monotonous roar of a who was ill of this ukrainian musical instrument provides a far more melodic sound and just about anybody can play just about any tune.

professional folk musician maxime because nukes as any football fan would master this instrument in no time and there was particularly keen could play even more than just football songs. not so those nor was are you see it took me less than five minutes to teach you how to play it's really easy to use i've been playing for some time and i've learned to play tunes one d.j. in many other musicians this is really to costs under five dollars coming in various sizes in either clay or plastic but this potter has been making these birdies for most of her life says the more natural the lead certain the more positive vibe they make the claim for their ratios as

a lead comes from the solo ukranian so in countries friendly ever passed and coming here for the twenty two of couple feel it and this is literally transfer the positive emotions of our land to every family uses one of those pushing this is the lead so i hope it will become the unofficial emblem of the euro twenty twelve championship the sound feeling stadium next year in ukraine and poland will tell how successful they have been. r.t. reporting from ukraine. and still to come here. approaching the red planet the crew of the mock mars five hundred mission is nearing its destination although it's only virtual the scientific worth of the experiment is very real. and how the money breakdown between russia and georgia is hurting every day and you look at families forced apart by politics. as potential u.s.

presidential hopefuls start turning their minds to the twenty twelve elections the list of burning issues for the republican candidates is growing longer by the day but one of the biggest is military spending and all the possible runners are having their say on the issue. looks at some new names on the scene. if you've been wondering who everyone of you. could possibly get only the washing. up the tea party i one day become the next u.s. president. while i'm not at this time a candidate for the presidency i will decide by june whether and i will become one . you came to the right party that's precisely what it is words undervalues the people to see pack everything here the fact that that's just the united states politics again just a stone's throw away and though he hasn't officially announced it it is going to

take a lot more of the new rhetoric to put americans back to work it's going to take a new president all eyes were on mitt romney what make this very clear if i were to decide to run for president who according to a recent rasmussen poll leads obama in a potential presidential race in two thousand and twelve and who just recently opposed the new start treaty which would limit the amount of nuclear weapons in both the united states and russia and which was supported by leadership of both parties neustar needs our national security. and potential candidate michele bachmann had quite a few eloquent things to say about u.s. foreign policy particularly china with all the money that we owe china i think we might rightly say who is your daddy but in this interview when discussing foreign policy bachmann it wasn't joking this is the time where we need to be on red hot alert five alarm alert and instead of pulling back and taking our weapons off the table we need to go and another presidential hopeful has been gearing up for years

now especially when it comes to dealing with iran and ahmadinejad he gets to wipe out tel aviv maybe this really is use nuclear weapons to iran he would accept that in a minute. because he believes everybody into iran goes to heaven and everybody in tel aviv does and now he's really angry at the u.s. president the obama administration is wrong on terrorism wrong on iran wrong in the muslim brotherhood wrong on hezbollah but hating obama is where the agreement seems to add because this year here is the compromise that conservatives also will have to make we will have to look long and hard at the military budget. i think it's going to be i knew there had to be some dissension so. some fresh faces are willing to say in with the new out with field but establishment republicans there may be the temptation to axe everything including the defense but

still have something to say and the money to not only say it but also to believe that the united states is becoming the laughingstock of the world but when realistic ideas too often get drowned out you cannot say that the job killing of the military budget in the last ten years has all been spent wisely and that there's not any waste in the job. just be on you. even the softy r. t. washington d.c. . when i'm not a who becomes the next president one of the main challenges they'll face is the growing budget deficit they just reports show it's risen to almost fifty billion dollars leaving someone in this to warn the u.s. is post the point of no return well over here in new york resident laurie healthiness took the street to the big apple to see if people really think america is bust.

the u.s. has a new budget coming out can america ever go bankrupt this week let's talk about that well we're already bankrupt so it's like credit card debt i mean. can you go at what point you hit bottom and what point do you start screaming about it china has too much invested in dollar to let america go bankrupt so now were something that someone else has to take care of. right now. if anything happens there's going to other countries who are going to do that for us is that fair. it's . not saying that everything's alright rosy at this point we're certainly out at a critical point and i think what you're pointing out is the fact that we need increased global cooperation it's not just a problem that can be fixed unilaterally either within the within the euro or within the us economy it's something that has to be fixed globally how do you stop spending when you've got. thirty three hundred million people to make sure that

they're healthy and have enough food and all that kind of stuff. how do you. you. you have to. cut it other places maybe is that going to war with so many people. as a real or. there's a lot of countries that are surviving off for the interest we're painting so it's good for us to be in debt you think debt not this much is it ok that our country is built on a deficit system. if you look at a lot of companies now they are so no it's not but we should be build on a surplus either do you think the rest of the world needs us to be in that yes i do feel like questions like these are sort of useless to people like me. it feels like it has nothing to do with. whether or not you think america can ever go

bankrupt the bottom line is with a deficit that continues to grow something's gotta give one way or another. after months of space travel a crew of three is finally nearing their destination the red planet where the mission is only a simulation it comes complete with all the trying conditions of space flight the lengthy journey of the solitude and of course the basic food logic sarah first found out how this unique experiment aims to prepare mankind for a real trip to mars. after more than eight months flying to the red planet the isolated mass five hundred crew preparing to go where no man is gone before they prepare to take their first steps onto a mock mars this or. this thing the surface of mars now only three of the six are actually going to be entering here they're going

to be carrying out experiments in collecting found other programs. that mars is going to be monitored for russia's real life mission control and in reality though the crew the space ship and the planet's surface all just part of the simulated experiment will be one that comes complete with mach emergencies scientific experiments. and no natural light it's purpose to learn more about the physical and psychological demands of long distance space travel the head of the project tells me it's a new team perhaps to avoid any tensions and the experience itself is a tough challenge for the crew to have to deal with the monotony but thanks to this program of drills the men are in a good condition and we hope that. they will be able to walk on the planet's surface the crew volunteers are being paid it's

a long haul experiment that still has a while to completion in fact it won't be until november six hundred forty days after they first began that the men will get to touch down back in reality it was the experiment gives a unique insight into the long term space travel techniques it will be a long while yet before the real thing until then this simulation is as close as it gets to witnessing a real mission to mars. r.t. . and you can get a full account of the mosque. but of all the news stories and features they're looking. matchmaking presidential candidates. never want to.

face book. the afghan president hamid karzai is trying to safeguard himself against a potential u.s. backed coup well that's the view of. when the whole international attention has been foreclosed on the unraveling situation in egypt suddenly got as i've popped up on the headlines with his new and to american

rhetoric this style to deprive the united states any opportunity to swap or to dismiss him with a more pliable pseudo democratic leader he decided to regain the initiative and momentum and to capitalize on and to american sentiments in afghanistan thanks to american occupation now he is in charge. clinton used to call narco state due to direct trafficking has acquired total financial independence from the united states or international community it's to president obama whether he has the guts to learn the less sum from cairo and to arrange that preventive palace coup in kabul before the situation in afghanistan we'll come. out of american control. now time to update you on some world news

in brief the stage today over four hundred protesters have been detained by police in the capital of algeria following demonstrations demanding the president's resignation and thirty thousand police are being posted around the city to prevent an uprising similar to that in egypt the government is also suspended trains and blocked websites such as twitter and facebook. and arrest warrant has been issued for expertise to our military. in connection with the assassination of former prime minister benazir bhutto is to appear in court on the nineteenth of february if he fails to do so he stands to be declared a wanted fugitive who denies the allegations that he knew about the planned murder and that he failed to ensure the protection of the opposition leader bhutto was a victim of the shooting and suicide blast in two thousand and seven during her election campaign are. powerful six point eight magnitude earthquake has hit central chile calls thousands to flee downed power lines and communications no

injuries have been reported government also reassured the public over fears of a tsunami the president said the tremor was an aftershock from last year's eight point eight strong quake and that one was centered in almost the same spot in caused mass devastation of coastal communities well as russian city of sochi gears up to host the twenty fourteen winter games it's olympic slopes are being put through their paces for the first time the black sea resort is hosting the russian cup. the first international competition at the venue the european cup will start next week and last until the end of the month and one hundred sixty athletes are participating as part of the preparations for the winter. the tough economic situation in georgia is forcing thousands of people to pack up and set off in search of a better life here in russia tbilisi may have severed all relations with its neighbor but he welcomes vast swathes of money that flow into the country on a daily basis one of the few ways those left behind can survive.

me happy and don't forget about as here come and visit us the north is asked us to show this video greeting to her relatives she sends her best wishes to her son her daughter in law and the grandkids who live away in russia for the seventy three year old they are her only real hope. only the good life is hard nowadays all i can get is a few lottery here and there. half of this big georgian family moved to rochelle fourteen years ago and even though it's hard for these people to make ends meet every month they send the money to their relatives and police and they are not the only wants west here alone families like the gross the shield is transferred more than seven hundred million u.s. dollars to georgia making russia the biggest cash supplier for this caucasus republic the number of such wire transfers has been growing steadily over the past few years giving a strong boost to georgia's economy and even though in two thousand aid police the

officially broke all diplomatic ties with most coup and cancel direct flights between the two capitals it didn't stop georgians from by greeting to russia with the hopes of finding jobs and a better wife we came here as refugees the neighbors were kind to us and they helped a lot so now after all these years we communicated with the rest of the family over the internet sometimes who make the phone calls and we wire money to them whenever we can money there is none nobody's daughter in law living in a small mining town lives very well in southern russia she relies on her husband paddle small business income that lets the whole family live in russia being for their children situation and supporting their elderly relatives. oh i didn't see this picture of her but notice video message finally reached its recipients maja and marina haven't seen their grandma for more than sixty years now they're hoping

that some day wife in georgia will get better and visiting the relatives will be as easy as going to the bank and making a mani transfer then as well or. is very southern russia. well coming up in a few minutes time t. continues its exploration of europe's capitals and travels to london to see how russian culture is being welcomed there you can join the must go up team as it discovers that many russians are enjoying their home from home on the terms. of formal russians actually moving to the u.k. every year no one's according to the self loathing grads and the fact many experts say that small questions about their fists is perhaps the first thing british economy. we hear live in moscow all be about with

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